How do I deploy my REST API on an EC2 Instance

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Im having some problems deploying my REST api written in C++ on an EC2 instance.

specifically, in my code I do the following:

server.setEndpoint("http://ec2-18-135-114-10.eu-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:6502");

Which calls the function (a wrapper for the cpprestsdk):

void BasicController::setEndpoint(const std::string & value) {
        uri endpointURI(value);
        uri_builder endpointBuilder;

        endpointBuilder.set_scheme(endpointURI.scheme());
        if (endpointURI.host() == "host_auto_ip4") {
            endpointBuilder.set_host(NetworkUtils::hostIP4());        
        }
        else if (endpointURI.host() == "host_auto_ip6") {
            endpointBuilder.set_host(NetworkUtils::hostIP6());
        }
        endpointBuilder.set_port(endpointURI.port());
        endpointBuilder.set_path(endpointURI.path());

        listener = http_listener(endpointBuilder.to_uri());
    }

However, I receive the exception `URI Must contain a host name'

Ok, so I try it again with an elastic public IPv4 address:

server.setEndpoint("http://18.135.114.10:6502/");

Again, I get the same error - no host name.

The only case I can get working is on local host, which looks like

server.setEndpoint("http://127.0.1.1:6502:6502/");

Note, this file shows how the exception arises from the cpprestsdk library https://github.com/microsoft/cpprestsdk/blob/master/Release/src/http/client/http_client.cpp

This is probably a very silly question, so I appreciate an kind person giving their help

amazon-web-services amazon-ec2 c++
1 Answers

Solution, change the function to:

void BasicController::setEndpoint(const std::string & value) {
        uri endpointURI(value);
        uri_builder endpointBuilder;

        endpointBuilder.set_scheme(endpointURI.scheme());
        if (endpointURI.host() == "host_auto_ip4") {
            endpointBuilder.set_host(NetworkUtils::hostIP4());        
        }
        else if (endpointURI.host() == "host_auto_ip6") {
            endpointBuilder.set_host(NetworkUtils::hostIP6());
        }
        else {
            endpointBuilder.set_host(endpointURI.host());
        } 
        endpointBuilder.set_port(endpointURI.port());
        endpointBuilder.set_path(endpointURI.path());

        listener = http_listener(endpointBuilder.to_uri());
    }

and use

server.setEndpoint("http://ec2-18-135-114-10.eu-west2.compute.amazonaws.com:6502/");
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